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Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes, by Henry T. Riley 1885 BOOK THE FIRST.

Transcriber's Note: A few very small changes have been made to this version: Italics have been converted to capitals.

PAMPHILUS TO HERMIPPUS It has been remarked, my HERMIPPUS, that though the ancient philosophers conveyed most of their instruction in the form of dialogue, this method of composition has been lit...

CHAPTER I. Leave Shields--Madras--Hired by government--Arrive at Chusan--Junks--Sickness--Number of Crew--Yeang-tze-keang--Boat breaks adrift--Wreck--Mr. Noble and child drowned--Mrs. Noble--Lieut.

ON LOVE ON LIFE IN A FUTURE STATE ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH SPECULATIONS ON METAPHYSICS SPECULATIONS ON MORALS ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS ON THE...

(_1741_) _Introduction by_ CHARLES BATTEN, JR. PUBLICATION NUMBER _175_ WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY _University of California, Los Angeles_ _1976_ GENERAL EDITORS William E...

CHAPTER I I had always suspected the geographical authorities did not know what they were talking about when they located the battlefield of Munda in the county of the Bastuli-Poeni, close to the ...

THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI "The Book of the Spiritual Man" An Interpretation By Charles Johnston B...

BERNARD SHAW ACT I It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent.

Translated by E. S. Shuckburgh INTRODUCTORY NOTE MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, the greatest of Roman orators and the chief master of Latin prose style, was born at Arpinum, Jan. 3, 106 B.C. His fathe...

FOREWORD In Russia, as elsewhere in the world, folklore is rapidly scattering before the practical spirit of modern progress.

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1918 COPYRIGHT _First Edition 1917_ _Reprinted 1918 (twice)_ CONTENTS PAGE NATIONALISM IN THE WEST ...

Translation by H. G. Dakyns THE ECONOMIST [1] A Treatise on the Science of the Household in the form of a Dialogue INTERLOCUTORS Socrates and Critobulus At Chapter VII. a prior discussion...

[Illustration] CONTENTS PAGE How the Whale Got His Throat 1 How the Camel Got His Hump ...

http://www.pgdp.net ARTILLERY THROUGH THE AGES A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasiz...

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I. SHOWS HOW THE ROYAL FAMILY SATE DOWN TO BREAKFAST This is Valoroso XXIV., King of Paflagonia, seated with his Queen and only child at their royal breakfast-table, and receiving the letter which...

Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott 1884 To The Inhabitance of SPACE IN GENERAL And H.C. IN PARTICULAR This Work is Dedicated By a Humble Native of Flatland In the Hope that Even as he wa...

Edited by Friedrich Kerst and Henry Edward Krehbiel This edition of "Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words," was translated into English and published in 1905 by B.W. H...

AUTHOR OF "THE MONTESSORI METHOD" AND "PEDAGOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY" _WITH FORTY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS_ NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY ...

1911 INTRODUCTION President Roosevelt in his address to the Governors at the White House, prophetically remarked that "The conservation of our national resources is only preliminary to the larg...

By Thomas Babington Macaulay Contents: Preface Horatius The Lay The Battle of the Lake Regillus The Lay Virginia The Lay The Prophecy of Capys ...

of the STANNARIES, and her Highness' LIEUTENANT-GENERAL of the COUNTY of CORNWALL.

[Illustration: QUI LEGIT REGIT.] The following lines by Mr. Lear were written for a young lady of his acquaintance, who had quoted to him the words of a young lady not of his acquaintance, "...

By L. FRANK BAUM Author of FATHER GOOSE; HIS BOOK, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, ETC.

produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) Ninth Cavalry NINTH CAVALRY One Hundre...

[Illustration: save 1-wheat _use more corn_ 2-meat _use more fish & beans_ 3-fats _use just enough_ 4-sugar _use syrups_ and serve the cause of freedom U.S. FOOD ...

http://www.freeliterature.org THE MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS OF GOETHE TRANSLATED BY BAILEY SAUNDERS WITH A PREFACE NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1906 CONTENTS TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE L...

East away from the Sierras, south from Panamint and Amargosa, east and south many an uncounted mile, is the Country of Lost Borders.

Time, Space and Gravitation, by Prof.

INTRODUCTION Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this...

Translation by H. G. Dakyns Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates.

ACT I An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great ra...

produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) The Government of the Philippine Islands Department of Publ...

Librarian Emeritus, The Mariners Museum Newport News, Virginia Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation Williamsburg, Virginia 1957 COPYRIGHT©, 1957 BY THE MARINERS MUSEUM, NEWPORT NEW...

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Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

E-text prepared by Stephen Leary <www.stephenleary.com> EUGENE ONEGUINE [Onegin]: A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by ALEXANDER PUSHKIN Translated from the Russian by Lieut.-Col.

ILLUSTRATED BY EBEL He fixed things--clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies.

by Alfred Lord Tennyson PROLOGUE Sir Walter Vivian all a summer's day Gave his broad lawns until the set of sun Up to the people: thither flocked at noon His tenants, wife and ch...

FOREWORD All of us like to think that our actions and reactions are a result of logical thought processes, but the fact is that suggestion influences our thinking a great deal more than logic.

TO THE READER In publishing this tragedy, I do but challenge myself that liberty, which other men have taken before me; not that I affect praise by it, for, nos hæc novimus esse nihil, only sinc...

[Illustration: MADAME LILLI LEHMANN.] TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY RICHARD ALDRICH New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

Preface THIS volume discloses the mental operations of perhaps the most thoroughly practical politician of the day--George Washington Plunkitt, Tammany leader of the Fifteenth Assembly District, S...

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_Translated By_ Alexander Teixeira De Mattos CHARACTERS TYLTYL MYTYL LIGHT THE FAIRY BÉRYLUNE NEIGHBOUR BERLINGOT DADDY TYL MUMMY TYL GAFFER TYL (Dead) GRANNY TYL (...

During the centuries that trapping has been carried on, not only in America, but thruout the entire world, various kinds of traps and snares have been in use and taken by all classes of trappers an...

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[Illustration: THE TOWER, EDGE HILL.] EDGE HILL: THE BATTLE AND BATTLEFIELD.